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Alaska Airlines this week said it has completed the migration of its online travel planning and pricing engine to a PC-based system running the Linux operating distributions, many in the open-source community are turning their attention

The SCO Group has posted a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the conviction of the author of the MyDoom worm currently sweeping the Internet.

It was 1998 when I first got involved with Linux. I was 18, and though I found support on the Web, mailing lists, IRC channels, and other assorted resources, I wanted to meet people face-to-face to discuss Linux. That was when I discovered LUG culture. How can you get involved with a LUG in your area, or even set one up?

This is the fourth in a series of reviews of Debian-based distributions. The first three have covered the best known commercial distributions. The first one looked at LindowsOS 4.5. The second examined newcomer MEPIS Linux. The third was about Xandros 2.0. All three of those are more about providing a familiar environment for those coming to Linux from Windows. This one is different. LibraNet is aimed more at existing Linux users - including Debian users - than those from the Windows world.

Whether running an online community or a blog, PHP-Nuke serves up your content without fuss. PHP-Nuke tries to be all things to all people.

Government and large corporations often require ISO certification of their products," said McNeil. "This would make Linux a much safer bet.".

NetApp's storage software will be used for a general certification platform for future releases them on a single rack to support a large grid cluster of Linux

...announced today that its Web hosting packages starting from Shared Intermediate and above are now compatible with the open source database platform MySQL.

Embedded webserver specialist Mbedthis Software has released AppWeb, a new "mini-Apache" for embedded Linux focusing on high security and designed for "embedding in applications and devices." AppWeb can be configured with a memory footprint of only 110K, and targets web services, offline applications, and embedded device management, according to Mbedthis.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Progeny has received LSB 1.3 certification for its Platform Services Componentized Linux core based on Debian sarge.

"Various overflows in the handling of AIM DirectIM packets was revealed in GAIM that could lead to a remote compromise of the IM client."

Open-source activists gathered at LinuxWorld Expo late last week to protest what they say are anti-Linux campaigns being spearheaded on Capitol Hill by rivals

"A new embedded Linux distribution with 2D accelerated graphics based on XFree86 is available now for the Sharp Zaurus SL-C700/750/760/860 and is currently being ported to other ARM architectures. The distribution -- Cacko Linux -- aims to make PDAs into more versatile, sublaptop-like machines by replacing Qtopia with X11."

"The Open Source developers are a target of spammers. We are the creators of most high-profile anti-spam technology. For example, SpamAssassin started out as, and remains today, an Open Source project. The predominant mail delivery programs of the Internet are Open Source projects such as Sendmail and Postfix, and thus most efforts to spam-proof those programs are Open Source as well. This is important, because it gives spammers a reason to defame us."

Bradley caught me up on a lot of what's going on with the FSF these days, including the SCO situation, non-corporate globalization, and GPL enforcement. but if Novarg affects the site, it will be the first time an attack on

Initial reports indicate that the virus was designed to execute a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) website ( http but if Novarg affects the site, it will be the first time an attack on

"The Joint Technical Committee of ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) has voted to recognize the Free Standards Group as a submitter of Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) for Linux."

"The company makes embedded graphics and I/O chips for mobile multimedia devices, and says it will actively participate in defining key APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for CE Linux audio, video, and graphics. "

"Apache's mod_python module could crash the httpd process if a specific, malformed query string was sent."

"If you are expecting cute graphical wizards and penguins automating every configuration step for you, that may be true. However, in essense, Slackware is one of the simplest distributions there is if you are proficient with a Linux system."